year only to come back and take the tampa bay buccaneers to the play offs. those are our latest headlines this our stop. that s all from me. sally is here at five o clock. now on bbc news, it s hardtalk with stephen sackur. welcome to hardtalk, i m stephen sackur. here s the good news. the proportion of the world s population living in extreme poverty has declined sharply over the past 30 years. here s the bad news. still close to one in 20 of all the world s people relies on humanitarian assistance for survival. with many nations cutting their aid budgets, international ngos remain a linchpin of the global aid system. but are they fit for purpose? well, my guest is danny sriskandarajah, chief executive of oxfam great britain. he promised to reimagine what aid would look like. has he succeeded? danny sriskandarajah, welcome to hardtalk. thank you, stephen. let s start with those two different ways of looking at what s happening to the world s poorest people. one in 20, almost
but are they fit for purpose? well, my guest is danny sriskandarajah, chief executive of oxfam great britain. he promised to reimagine what aid would look like. has he succeeded? danny sriskandarajah, welcome to hardtalk. thank you, stephen. let s start with those two different ways of looking at what s happening to the world s poorest people. one in 20, almost, still suffering extreme poverty, even as global poverty rates decline do you think that the aid system is failing those people? well, let s just start with what s happening around the world at the moment. we think, for the first time since records began 30 years ago, there s actually been a rise in extreme poverty in the last 12 months. so the combination of covid disruptions, the war in ukraine, rising prices around the world, has actually led to a great reversal in that general decline in extreme poverty. hang on a minute. that s an important phrase a reversal . it could be a blip because it is important to empha
the english city of liverpool. last year s winner, ukraine, was scheduled to host the event but the uk took it up on their behalf because of the ongoing war. the competition begins in may. now on bbc news, it s hardtalk. welcome to hardtalk, i m stephen sackur. here s the good news. the proportion of the world s population living in extreme poverty has declined sharply over the past 30 years. here s the bad news. still close to one in 20 of all the world s people relies on humanitarian assistance for survival. with many nations cutting their aid budgets, international ngos remain a linchpin of the global aid system. but are they fit for purpose? well, my guest is danny sriskandarajah, chief executive of oxfam great britain. he promised to reimagine what aid would look like. has he succeeded? danny sriskandarajah, welcome to hardtalk. thank you, stephen. let s start with those two different ways of looking at what s happening to the world s poorest people. one in 20, almost, s
people traveling on trains as flames roared near the tracks. in france the fires forced at least 37,000 people to evacuate. in uk today was the hottest day ever. 104 degrees fahrenheit. the heat is triggering fires around london now as well. back here in the u.s. 60 million people will experience triple digit temperatures in the next week. there is no bigger story right now, no issue affecting more people, billions of people. the u.n. secretary-general says half of humanity is in the climate danger zone. and he had this warning. we have a choice, collective action or collective suicide. it is in our hands. we have team coverage all across the globe. let s start with nina. london fire officials are facing major strains. what are you seeing? reporter: yeah, that s right. we ve seen the specter of those wildfires that are raging across southern europe, ana, hit here on the fringes of the britishcal tal three miles away from where i am. there was a wildfire burning and ther
members of the trump inner circle, including his eldest daughter, ivanka trump, who appeared to have said something different to the filmmaker than what she told the january 6th committee. she told the filmmaker her father should continue to fight until every legal remedy is exhausted and that s what he should do. now, the committee has released a snippet of her private deposition to them earlier this year in which she had said that she agreed or she accepted what the former attorney general bill barr said that the claims of fraud were essentially bs in barr s words. she said she accepted that. we ll see what ils she also said in the deposition and what she said among this footage. this all comes as the lawmakers on the committee are planning to delay their next round of hearings which were expected to be next week. but instead they re going to wait until mid-july because they re going through a deluge of new evident in the word of jamie raskin, a member of the committee, who